ENEE 324H - Engineering Probability

Fall 2002

Last Update December 9, 2002

Course Information

Special Announcements

Project Groups:

Statistical exploration of communication protocols (Ba, Veeraraghavan, Thirumalai, Mehta, Jain)

Blind source separation for speech (Chillemi)

Hiding of information in seemingly random data (Stoica, Chiou)

Finding/building a good physical random number generator and comparing it to a good software random number generator (Pressman, Wanga, Malo, Guy, Linde)

What makes a good biometric authentication mechanism - e.g. iris scans? (Roberts, Strohmaier, Sivak, Haq, Popkin)

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 9

Cumulative List of Homework Assignments

Homework solutions:

Problem set 1 page 1

Problem set 1 page 2

Problem set 2 page 1

Problem set 2 page 2

Problem set 2 page 3

Problem set 2 page 4

Problem set 3 page 1

Problem set 3 page 2

Problem set 3 page 3

Problem set 4

Problem set 5

Problem set 6

Problem set 7

Problem set 8

Problem set 9

Problem set 10

Resources for Projects

John Daugman and Iris Recognition (biometrics)

Robert Axelrod and the evolution of cooperation (Prisoner's dilemma)

Random Number Generators

Claude E. Shannon's classic paper that founded Information Theory

Aaron Wyner on the significance of Shannon's work

Probability-related Web Resources

First Bayes a software package
Software for Belief Networks
Monash University Group on Information Theoretic Applications of Bayes' Theorem
NASA Ames group on Bayesian methods and AI
Bayes' Rule and Odds Propagation
Jaynes' book
Who was Bayes?
Bayes' Theorem
Performance Modeling and Analysis of Computer Communication Networks (RPI)